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IET Scotland Annual Dinner 2014 Friday 4th April 2014 Radisson Blu, Argyll Street, Glasgow 19.00 start Join guests from industry and academia for this prestigious black tie event in the striking Radisson Blu in Glasgow City centre. The Annual Dinner is a must attend networking event in Scotland's engineering and technology calendar with great food, company and entertainment. Cost - £45 per ticket Tables of up to 12 people Booking Form
Iyesomi Maureen Imomoh presentation on "Construction Robots: A Lasting Solution to Infrastructural Development" is the 2012 winner of the Nigera PATW. She will now attend the EMEA Regional Final taking place on 26 August in Paris. View more photographs from the 2012 PATW Competition
A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have been launched. The products, designed by Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou, are manufactured in China. His company VMK's devices run Google's Android software. They will retail at $170 (£105) for the smartphone and $300 (£185) for the tablet... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20850778 Please join Akin Akintoye's discussion on: ''Technology development in Africa'' in the 'Discussions' area of the Nigeria Network MyCommunity pages
The Nigeria PATW was held at the weekend on Saturday 29 June 2013. The Delta State University played host providing the Institution's Electronic Library as Venue for the event. An excited group of engineering students were in attendance. Unfortunately not one of the 5 entrants from the University to the Competition made presentations as they were all recent graduates and called up to compulsory national service a few days to the event. Undaunted, University Management were ahead to support the event to success. All three presenations were from students of the neighbouring Federal University of Petroleum Resources. The local IET Committee are grateful for the support of Engr. Smith Otuagoma, HOD, Electrical Electronics Engineering who was University appointed fascilitator for the event.
BBC News looks at vanishing professions: Nigeria's indigo dyers http://t.co/hGGnKa1mkJ pic.twitter.com/fAoBjXbJ1O — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 3, 2014
Are robots really better than people? http://t.co/Q82LB5qHzg — The Guardian (@guardian) February 3, 2014
The IET Hereford & Worcester Network organises a varied programme of activities in and around the Hereford & Worcester area. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about the committee, or would like to volunteer, please get in touch with any of the committee members listed below: Clive Harding Treasurer Antony Knight Past Chairman Joanathan Isaacs Member Alison Hodge Member Janice Wallace Secretary James Sweetman Member Charles Henderson Member Colin Chandler Member Don Southey Chairman Richard Bowden Young Professional Joanne Longton Community Relationship Manager
On Oct 3rd 2012, the Barcelona local network of the IET paid a visit to the Control tower of the main Barcelona city airport "El Prat". We were received by the tower supervisor, the staff member responsible for the IT system and by the person responsible for the radar system. We began the visit quite literally from the Top as we were led up to the top of the tower were the full extent of the airport can be seen. This includes the long runaway on the north side running east-west where aircraft land, a smaller parallel run away on the south where aircraft take off and a third one that crosses the two south-north mainly used for night operations that avoids excessive neighbourhood noise pollution since the aircraft approach the airport from the sea. As expected, procedures are quite strict and…
The Barcelona group recently organised their PATW competition which took place on 18th October at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. There were four competitors presenting on the following subject: • ³Cat-1: The CubeSat inititative at the UPC NanoSat Lab • Automatic design of an artificial neural network for Unreal Tournament 2004 • Design of an electronics device to measure audible hearing level • Engineering and all things "bio-" The day of the event, all was prepared at the graduation hall of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, our hosting institution, with contenders ready with their full presentations and the audience interested to learn more on the announced topics. For starters, the local IET representative gave a brief description of the Institution of Engineering and Technology…
Spanish startup @RawLemon1 wants to change #solar power collection using spheres over panels: http://t.co/jeJgh1U1sI pic.twitter.com/pCssClaS3p — Engineering Council (@EngCouncil) February 3, 2014
This talk concentrated on the application of Civil Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom from the first commercial power plant in Cumbria through to the the new fleet of Nuclear Power plant being planned over the next 20 years. View Presentation The development of the current UK Nuclear power plant in terms of size, complexity and operational characteristics will be discussed for the Magnox, Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors and the Pressurised Water Reactors The impact of Fukushima will be discussed for both Operational and New Nuclear Power plant. The talk concluded with a discussion of the Plans for new Nuclear power plant in the UK. This will look at the plans of the Utilities who will develop the plant and will describe the technologies which will be built in the UK over the next 20 years. The…
Ever seen 3D printed teeth? Pop along to our #PrintTheFuture exhibition & marvel at a wave of 600 printed objects http://t.co/5a9KJhrFYm — Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) January 31, 2014
Ferdinando Rodriguez Past Chairman Graham Deacon Member Mark Witkowski Member Samuel Wane Member Nick Hawes Member Xiu Tian Yan Chairman Sanja Dogramadzi Member Dongbing Gu Member Atif Syed Member Vilas Chitrakaran Member Joanne Longton Community Relationship Manager
The #IET Education team heading to @lborouniversity to set up for the @FLLUK National Final @IETFaraday @TheIET @IETtv @WeKnowRobots — FIRST LEGO League UK (@FLLUK) January 31, 2014
New robotic tongue from @UAB_info so sensitive it can distinguish between #beer types - and detect bad ones: http://t.co/lbX3z1vIXj #science — Engineering Council (@EngCouncil) January 31, 2014
Colum McNally, 17, told IET Northern Ireland Policy Grp his scholarship has reaffirmed his wish to become an engineer pic.twitter.com/TVCIdBp81E — IET (@TheIET) January 31, 2014
The IET’s Power Systems and Equipment Technology Network hosted a Smart Grids Poster Session in October 2013. The evening reception brought the community together to foster new collaborations, encourage multi-disciplinary interactions and showcase the latest developments in Smart Grids. The evening included 17 posters on Smart Grids. The posters were peer reviewed and accepted following a call for abstracts from individuals, academia, companies, and various institutions to showcase their products and how these products fit into this future system along with the visions, anticipated problems, expected solutions, and the commercial overview of the future of the system. Adapting to a Sustainable Future Authors: A Tosetti, R Spencer Applications of Wide Area Monitoring Technology Authors: Mohsen…
This event not only showcases the rail industry, but also demonstrates the science and apprenticeship and graduate engineering opportunities available in this growing area. It provides the rail industry with the opportunity to promote its activity, network with other key players and interact with young people. There's an excellent programme of activities planned for the 2014 event which will be held on Thursday, 20 March 2014 at the Roundhouse in Derby. Further details of the programme and how to get involved, can be seen here .
Good news for staff at Augusta Westland, 1000 UK engineering jobs have just been secured as a result of them being awarded government contracts to upgrade the Apache and Merlin helicopters .
The programme for the 10th Infrarail event on 20-22 May 2014 at Earls Court has just been announced. The keynote speakers will be the Minister of State for Transport and Simon Kirby from Network Rail. There will also be project updates on: London Underground - Northern Line Extension, London Underground - Lean Transformation Programme Network Rail - Thameslink Network Rail - Northern Hub Network Rail - Electrification HS2 - update and business opportunities Further details on the event and how to register can be found here .
There's some interesting articles in the latest issue of the magazine, including details of the UK Rail Industry Awards on 20 February 2014 at the Brewery, City of London. See here for further details.
Have you ever considered an aero engineering career? With record revenue and growth in each of the last 3 years, the UK’s commercial aerospace industry urgently needs well qualified graduates to spearhead its continued growth. That is why UK government and 9 major aerospace employers are jointly funding 500 MSc tuition fee bursaries , each worth up to £9.5k. For further details on the AeroMSc Bursary Scheme and how to apply please click here .
MOS-AK Meetings are organised with aims to strengthen a network and discussion forum among experts in the field, enhance open platform for information exchange related to compact/Spice modeling and Verilog-A standardization, bring people in the compact modeling field together, as well as obtain feedback from technology developers, circuit designers, and CAD tool vendors. The topics cover all important aspects of compact model development, implementation, deployment and standardization within the main theme - frontiers of the compact modeling for nm-scale MEMS designs and CMOS/SOI circuit simulation. The next workshop will take place at London Metropolitan University, London UK - if you're interested in attending then please visit the website . Is anyone here planning to attend? You can register…
TRL are asking all community members to help out with a new and exciting research into wireless charging of electric vehicles. It would be greatly appreciated if you could please take about 10-15 minutes to respond to this questionnaire . This survey is part of a task led by TRL and in collaboration with VUB in a European research project to investigate the socio-economic impacts of WPT charging of electric vehicles and more specifically the social acceptance elements. Your participation in this survey can help to shape future implementation of wireless charging for electric vehicles.
